Various donations to organizations within Lebanon

Wijk bij Duurstede December 29, 2023 

As the VVL foundation, we have currently delivered 36 containers with a range of relief goods in Lebanon in collaboration with the Containers of Love foundation.
At the moment, the 36th container has been unloaded in Beirut and the relief supplies have been distributed to our various projects.

The VVL foundation and Containers of Love have been able to make many donations to the following charities.
Thanks to all sponsors and volunteers in the Netherlands and the local volunteers who distribute and deliver the goods in Lebanon.

Easy-Shipping,   Sourceware,   Medipoint,   Dr. Aletta Jacobs College,   CK Tekenbureau, Gemeente Deventer   and the many private donations we received.

Relief supplies given to various organizations in Lebanon:
December 29, 2023

Our campaign Let a child laugh has yielded hundreds of filled backpacks
These backpacks have been distributed to the orphanage "Home of Hope" among others.
Backpacks have also been distributed to the Monestry of the Cross, SSCC Bauchrieh, SSCC Hadat and Physiotherapy.

In addition, the Monestry of the Cross has been given incontinence material, lifts and various wheelchairs.

Our Physiotherapy project has received several treatment tables and other materials.

Assistance to several schools in the Baalbek Valley in Lebanon:
Wijk bij Duurstede, July 30, 2023

We have received a request through Containers of Love to help several schools in the Baalbek Valley.
This includes school furniture, chairs and computers.
We have since received over 200 desks with chairs from one of our sponsors.
These materials were handed over to Sumeya Mua Hamie of Containers of Love in early July.

Containers of Love is handling the shipment to Lebanon, and with it will provide the schools below with new furniture;
Ecole Don Bosco et Marie Dominque des Soeurs Salésiennes Hadath Baalbek and Tamneen El Tehta High School, Baalbek.

Various relief goods distributed:
Beirut, 24 January 2023

This container was again full of relief supplies, including for our school project many desktop computers and Notebooks.
In addition, we have again given incontinence material to the psychiatric hospital Monastery of the Cross.
Our help project the Physiotherapy practice has also received its material.
in addition, there was also material from Containers of Love who themselves distributed it further among the various aid projects.

Aid organization 26 letters:
Beirut, 24 January, 2023

We have brought for the organization   a quantity of clothing.
Our amazing volunteer Nikki van Gompel gathered winter clothes for our families and, this year, she has done it again!
Thank you Nikki and all the people that donated. 
This has been distributed by the organization to the population.

Donation from Carnival association:
Bauchrieh Beirut, 5 April 2022

Clothing has been donated by Carnival association Iesselzotten Olst to the theatre group of the College des Soeurs des Saints Coeurs – Bauchrieh.
The toddlers immediately put on the clothes and performed a theater piece for us.
The joy radiates from the faces.
The school thanks the association, the theater group can move forward again with beautiful clothes during their performances.

Delivering goods to Arcenciel
Jisr el Bacha - Beirut, 01 March 2022

Arcenciel is a Lebanese based non-profit NGO, which supports Lebanon’s most underprivileged and marginalized communities, regardless of religion, political affiliation or nationality.
We also visited this organization last summer, and asked if the Veterans Foundation for Lebanon can do something for them.
Last week it was so far that this organization also got the relief goods delivered. Henry, Georges and several other employees first loaded the truck at the school and then drove to rue John Kennedy. Once there, everything was unloaded and distributed to arcenciel employees

Relief supplies at the Monastery of the Cross.
Bkennaya - Beirut, 26 February 2022

Last summer in August we as the VVL Foundation visited this organization.

We then found that this psychiatric hospital is in urgent need of help. Today Georges, Henry and several other volunteers have brought the various relief goods that were loaded from the container last Tuesday to the Congregation des Franciscaines de la Croix du Liban (Congregation of the Franciscans of the Cross of Lebanon) in Beirut.This shipment in this case is mainly medical relief goods such as incontinence material.

Private donation
Bauchrieh Beirut, 22 february 2022

We received a quantity of clothing and shoes from Andre Ultee, this was distributed to the children at the College des Soeurs des Saints Coeurs – Bauchrieh.
Andre thanks, you have made a lot of children very happy.

Supply of animal feed to the local Lebanese animal welfare organization FOUR PAWS
Beirut Bauchrieh, 22 February 2022

In October 2021 we were approached by FOUR PAWS International if we wanted to help with sending 2000 kilos of animal feed to their local organization in Beirut.
Of course, we wanted to contribute to this.
This resulted in us loading the animal feed into our container in November 2021.
On February 22, 2022 the local organization in Beirut of FOUR PAWS collected the animal feed and they take care of the further distribution within Lebanon.

Four Paws is the global animal welfare organisation for animals under direct human influence, which reveals suffering, rescues animals in need and protects them. Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding

Donation electric wheelchair
Beirut, February 2022

Last year around May we were asked if it was possible to supply an electric wheelchair to a girl named Christine from Beirut.
She is in a wheelchair and depends on others to get around.
Thanks to our sponsor Medipoint, it has become possible to donate an electric wheelchair to her.
In February it was finally time and the wheelchair could be handed over to her.
She can now move independently and she is very happy with that.

Hospital sets up new corona department
Eitat Bekaa Valley, 22 January 2022

The public hospital in Eitat Beka Valley Lebanon called containers of love for help.
Because of the high percentages of corona infected patients, they wanted to set up a new corona department in their hospital. From hospital beds to medical equipment and supplies. 

In July 2021, containers with nursing beds and medical supplies had already been sent to Beirut by the Veterans for Lebanon Foundation.

The hospital could therefore be helped immediately thanks to the volunteers of Containers of Love with the already available stock of medical equipment.
All this has been made possible by our sponsors in the Netherlands, Stichting Veteranen voor Lebanon, HartingBank (Medipoint). 
Our thanks go out to all our volunteers in the Netherlands and Lebanon.

Beirut, 7 October 2020

After the horrific explosion on August 4, 2020 in the port of Beirut, which virtually destroyed the center.

In collaboration with Containers of Love, we sent the first 8 containers with relief goods to Lebanon.
This would not have been possible without the help of our sponsors, for that our thanks.
Today it is finally time for the 8 sent containers to be released by customs and can be unloaded.  
Sumeya from Containers of Love was in port to hand over the first containers to the local aid workers.
Because this was the first shipment, we had also invited the Dutch Military Attaché to receive the containers.